Some Weekend Updates
In the interest of completeness, here are a few quick postscripts to stories that we previously covered in these pages, but didn't get around to mentioning during the craziness of last week. They come from the National Law Journal and/or the WSJ Law Blog.
1. Judge Robert Somma: The cross-dressing former bankruptcy judge (at right), who resigned from the bench after a drunk driving arrest, has joined the bankruptcy practice of Posternak Blankstein & Lund, a midsize firm based in Boston, as senior counsel. [National Law Journal; WSJ Law Blog]
2. American Justice School of Law: This defunct Kentucky law school, which in 2007 was hit with a class action filed by some of its students, has filed for bankruptcy. [National Law Journal; WSJ Law Blog]
3. L'Affaire Kozinski: The panel of federal judges from the Third Circuit investigating Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (at right) has retained Robert Heim, head of litigation at Dechert, to oversee the probe (which will be staffed by lawyers from Dechert and Morgan Lewis & Bockius). [National Law Journal; WSJ Law Blog]
4. University of Michigan's Wolverine Scholars Program: Sarah Zearfoss, dean of admissions at UM Law, has defended the program against allegations that it's an attempt to game the U.S. News rankings. She pointed out that the program is small, likely to result in the admission of just five to ten students (out of a class of 360), and that very few UM undergrads (about 200) would even be eligible for it. [WSJ Law Blog]
(31) Comments
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Thanks for this, Lat. ATL needs more of these weekend updates.
How can the whole of Umich have only 200 students graduating summa?
5--because instead of studying, they are too busy being cornfed
It looks like there are a fair number of people checking ATL on the weekend.
3.8 doesn't even qualify for summa, fyi.
My question is, if you have a 3.8 gpa and you can't take the LSAT for this program, applying for this seems retarded. You can't gurantee you will get in through this way, and without your LSAT you can't apply anywhere else.....
GULC > UMich > UPenn State
GULC > UMich > UPenn State
-- UVA 2L
UMich to TTT100!
Why does only Lat work on the weekends?
Ellie is getting damn lazy for somebody in a new job.
Hello, Mr. Lat. I appreciate your weekend updates. But, I have a question...all of these seem to have links to the wsj blog. Why?
6:19 - Also the National Law Journal. But Lat notes that in the opening paragraph.
ATL is a blog. Blogs usually serve as news aggregators or sources of commentary / analysis.
It's the job of the National Law Journal and the Wall Street Journal to break news. If ATL happens to break news every now and then, that is just icing on the cake.
Good to know I am not the only one working on the weekend. Thanks, ATL (and commenters) for keeping me company!
Michigan to TTT
14/6:36: i guess my point was a little more snarky...i have no problem with linking to the wsj. But, when Lat was at the Helm, WSJ would break some stories, and ATL would break others (or they would at least come out around th same time). Now, with Lat no longer in charge, (hi, Elie Mystal), it seems like ATL is a second-ran. And by the way, the links to the wsj are to the wsj BLOG. Is Slater doing something differently than he has in the past, or is the new EIC doing stuff differently than Lat has in the past?
7:00 - I miss Peter Lattman at the WSJ blog. His posts generated more comments than Dan Slater's.
7:00 - Elie / ATL has done a much better job of covering the Heller Ehrman collapse than Slater / WSJ.
Items (1) - (3) first appeared in the NLJ (then the WSJ, then ATL). Why doesn't the NLJ ever get props?
What's happening on the merger front? Any interesting news on the Seyfarth/Squire deal?
The way I'm reading the Wolverine Scholars rules, an applicant can take the LSAT, but not until AFTER he's applied. It doesn't seem to spell out whether someone can file their application on the first day they're accepted and then immediately go out and take a summer LSAT.
If they're required to wait until they receive the decision, then I guess they're stuck with October/December LSAT.
This would be a huge minus for people who don't want to be taking the LSAT during classes, people who may need multiple LSAT sessions before they can get a good score, or people that want to turn in their apps the moment their favorite schools will accept them. Oh, and people who can't get up before noon and would thus be unqualified to take the LSAT at any other time. I guess.
Seems like the only reason to apply to this program is if you're not confident of a good LSAT score, and you're willing to settle on a safer bet.
AJSL is still around, just under a different name. The Alben Barkley School of Law. Same shitty school; same worthless degree.
The fact that Lat has to do weekend updates that link to WSJ stories from Friday mean that Elie is not doing his job. Or does ATL have a generous vacation policy for the first month of employment?
Maybe Lat just likes to write on the weekends (since he doesn't have the time during the week).
SPRINGBANK 15 = DELICIOUSNESS.
SOMMA = SOMA
PosTTTernak
Wachovia being sold means Charlotte is fucked. Alston, Parker Poe, Moore Van Allen, Womble, Mayer Brown, McGuireWoods and Robinson Bradshaw just lost a shit load of business. Layoffs, partners jumping ship etc to follow.
I have seen many articles claiming UM law school is overrated. My theory for one is the rankings are done by liberal intellectuals and they adore the UM law school because of its extreme attempt at diversity. Indiana law school would be better if it did not hav e a second law school in Indianapolis. Lots easier to focus on the quality of one law school instead of two.
I have seen many articles claiming UM law school is overrated. My theory for one is the rankings are done by liberal intellectuals and they adore the UM law school because of its extreme attempt at diversity. Indiana law school would be better if it did not hav e a second law school in Indianapolis. Lots easier to focus on the quality of one law school instead of two.